 Hello, and welcome to the John Stilltrigger show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce joined with Stevenson swimming head coach John Stilltrigger. And coach you're getting towards the end of the dual meet season. You had your final home dual meet on Saturday. You swam against Gally Dat. Talk a little bit about how that went for you guys. Gally Dat actually was a really good meet for us. We had four kids who had not qualified for our conference meet just yet. And so we rested them for a couple of days, put a suit on them. And we actually had three of our four kids qualify. So now we're just waiting on one more to qualify hopefully this week coming up. So it was a really successful meet I thought. Yeah, it's exciting to know just when everybody teams qualified. We competed a couple of weeks at the MAC championship. Take us through a couple of people that have swam particularly well for you. You know, swam a few weeks since we talked. So kind of take us through kind of the second half of the season who's been swimming well. I guess Jules Burnett on the girls side has swam really well for us. You know, her time 109 in the Hunter-Brescher because it is right now currently second in the conference. She wasn't even close to that last year, you know, in season. She was more like a 111-112. So I think she set herself up to do some good things at our conference meet. Colby, I think Colby has swam well early on. She's right now, she's hit a speed bump because again, we've been training pretty much twice a day, every day for the last month, working really, really hard. But you know, early on in the season, her times were really good. And again, she's one of the ones that's probably in the top five, top seven within the conference. And you know, on the guy side, Zach, he swam in pretty well. And again, his times are faster now than they were this time last year, which is, you know, really what you're looking for. Yeah, talk about Zach, obviously his last home meet was past Saturday. You know, senior for you and your loan senior. To talk about what he's meant to the program. Zach's been great. You know, and again, I mentioned this before. After his freshman year, he wasn't even sure if he was going to swim again. And you know, he came out of sophomore year. And you know, I thought he really started to grow personally. He, you know, really spread his wings and embraced, you know, the team aspect, especially with the guys on the team. And it swam well. And he's improved every single year. Last year he was two 100s away from getting first team all conference. So that's, that's the goal for this year is for him is to try to get an all conference. He would like, you know, he wants to be top two in the, in the two fly this year. So I mean, he's got some goals. Yeah, absolutely. We'll talk a little bit more about the conference week next week. Obviously it's your final dual meeting this season coming up this Saturday against Arcadia, who swam pretty well. It's probably a good test to kind of see where you stack up going into the conference meet. Yeah, Arcadia swam very well this year. They, they're one of the top teams in a conference, both men and women. So, you know, again, one of our goals and one of our mantras is to learn how to swim faster when you're tired. And, and my kids are tired. They're really tired. But again, I always tell them that you can swim fast when you're tired. And, you know, Izzy is a perfect example of that. She's actually done two lifetime best than the last two meets in the hundred free, you know, dog tired. So, you know, I think the one big thing I think from last week's meet more than anything was we only had a couple of kids rest for a couple of days and they swam really well, which gets the kids excited for a two and a half week rest, you know, for the conference meet. So, again, I think this meet will be, you know, a good meet for the kids. But I think we're all about ready to taper. Yeah, I'm sure they're about ready for rest and get ready for conference championship. Yep, that's for sure. All right, coach, we'll best select this weekend and best select as you continue to prepare for the Mack Championship. All right, thank you very much. For John Stiltrager, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the John Stiltrager show.